Randy West (photographer)
Randy West (born 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American fine art photographer, perhaps best known for his distinctive and avant-garde scanner use of the photographic medium, as seen across several series of his work.[1] West is also on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, and a director of the school's Master of Fine Arts program for photography, video, and related media.
Exhibitions
West has been represented by the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York and the Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles. Other individual exhibitions have appeared at the Jan Kesner Gallery in Los Angeles, the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, the Houston Center for Photography, and as part of the Here Theater Project. His work has also appeared in group exhibitions, including exhibitions with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the International Center for Photography, the San Diego Contemporary Art Museum, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson,[2] and the Marlborough Gallery.
Solo exhibitions
- 1984 Ball State University, Muncie, IN[citation needed]
- 1986 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 9 Portraits[citation needed]
- 1988 Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA[citation needed]
- 1989 Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[citation needed]
- 1991 Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, On Our Way to Heaven. Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Flowers + Grass. Pasadena City Installation, Pasadena Arts Commission, CA, On Our Way to Heaven. Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[citation needed]
- 1993 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, Water and Ice. Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Seascapes 1989-92.[citation needed]
- 1995 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Seascapes 1993-94. Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, Seascapes 1993-94.[citation needed]
- 1996 Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Seascapes 1993-94. Thomas Barry Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Seascapes 1993-94. Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, AL, Seascapes 1993-94.[citation needed]
- 1997 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, Lines of Sight.[citation needed]
- 1998 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, Lines of Sight.[citation needed]
- 2002 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, Pretty.[3] Here Theater Project for Satan's Journal, New York, NY, Vine videos.
- 2004 Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Pretty.[citation needed]
- 2006 Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Bird Rabbit Snake.[1]
- 2007 Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, Bird Rabbit Snake.[4]
- 2011 Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, Tethered.[citation needed]
- 2015 Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Works on Paper.[citation needed]
Group exhibitions
- 1986 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA; Zeus Trabia Gallery, New York, NY; Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, National Aperture '86, NC[citation needed]
- 1987 Photography, Etc., Marcuse Pheifer Gallery, New York, NY[citation needed]
- 1988 Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA, Appalachian State University, SC[citation needed]
- 1989 Los Angeles Photography Center, CA[citation needed]
- 1990 Los Angeles Photography Center, CA[citation needed]
- 1991 Pasadena's Choice, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Water Street Studios, New York, NY; Los Angeles Photography Center, CA[citation needed]
- 1993 London Lighthouse, London, England; OUT Benefit, for AIDS Research, Los Angeles, CA[citation needed]
- 1994 Group Show, Art Place, New York, NY, Group Show, Limbo, New York, NY, Group Show Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[citation needed]
- 1995 Seascapes, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA; H20, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Hedrick Martin Institute, New York, NY; Group Show, Art Place, New York, NY[citation needed]
- 1996 Small Works V, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, Swimmers, Washington Center for Photography, Washington, DC[citation needed]
- 1997 Portraits 19th & 20th Century Photography, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; Oceans & Galleries, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY[citation needed]
- 1998 Seachange, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ[citation needed]
- 1999 Female, Wessel + O'Connor, New York, NY; Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY; Seachange, International Center for Photography, New York, NY; Seachange, San Diego Contemporary Art Museum, San Diego, CA[citation needed]
- 2000 Group Show, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY; On Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY[citation needed]
- 2002 Aquaria, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany,[5] Aquaria, International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria, Oceans, National Resource Defense Council, [Some] Photography [Abstract], Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA [6]
- 2007 Enlightened Development, Architecture + Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA [7]
- 2008 Framing AIDS, Queens Museum, Queens, NY [8]
- 2009 Recent Acquisitions, United States Federal Reserve, Washington, DC; Recent Acquisitions, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture Foundation, NY;[9] Forces of Nature, Danese Gallery, New York, NY; Beyond the Document: Color Field Photography, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ[citation needed]
- 2010 The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ [10]
- 2011 International Museum of Photography/Film, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, FL, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography; Hostetter Gallery, The Pingry School, NJ, Bumping into Intangibles[citation needed]
- 2012 Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University; MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NY, Conference of the Birds; Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV[citation needed]
- 2013 Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge; Brooklyn Rail, NY, Coming Together: Surviving Sandy[citation needed]
- 2015 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams,MA, Photography in an Expanded Field; City Bird Gallery, NY, Posture; [citation needed]
- 2016 Flowers Gallery, London, UK, Equivalents/Songs of the Sky; Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY, Re: Re: Re:[citation needed]
Recognition
The New York Times,[11] Photography in New York,[citation needed] the Los Angeles Times,[citation needed] Artweek,[citation needed] and The Village Voice[citation needed] have each published reviews of West's work. His Seascape series was also published in Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, a publication from the Center for Creative Photography. West has also been recognized by the Hedda Stern Foundation, the City of Pasadena Cultural Arts, and the Ahmanson Foundation.[citation needed]
References
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- ^ http://oneartworld.com/Bruce+Silverstein/bird+rabbit+snake.html
- ^ http://www.jbiggs.com/exhibitions_page_files/KunstsammlungenChemnitzAquaria.htm
- ^ http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=135&cid=10262&currpage=2&currpage2=1&rta=http://www.artnet.com&source=2&type=2
- ^ https://www.dexigner.com/news/10627
- ^ http://newsgrist.typepad.com/visualaids/2008/11/index.html
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
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